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    Frog in the Boiling Water

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    • DustinB3403D
      DustinB3403
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      Sure but the first leads to the latter.

      If you're getting "WTF emails" regularly or even semi-occasionally that is the water getting hotter.

      The events trigger the temperature change in the water. It just occurs so slowly that the frog sits there, not really noticing because it's become normal to receive a "WTF email" over something.

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      • BRRABillB
        BRRABill @scottalanmiller
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        @scottalanmiller said

        The term comes from the fact that if you drop a frog into boiling water, it knows that it is boiling and jumps out instantly. But if you put a frog into luke water and warm it up slowly over time, the frog doesn't notice the changes and will boil alive, which is bad.

        So is dropping a frog into boiling water.

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        • wirestyle22W
          wirestyle22
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          My entire network

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403 @wirestyle22
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            @wirestyle22 said in Frog in the Boiling Water:

            My entire network

            is? . . .

            You didn't finish that thought.

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            • wirestyle22W
              wirestyle22 @DustinB3403
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              @DustinB3403 said in Frog in the Boiling Water:

              @wirestyle22 said in Frog in the Boiling Water:

              My entire network

              is? . . .

              You didn't finish that thought.

              a frog in boiling water

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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403 @wirestyle22
                last edited by DustinB3403

                @wirestyle22 said in Frog in the Boiling Water:

                @DustinB3403 said in Frog in the Boiling Water:

                @wirestyle22 said in Frog in the Boiling Water:

                My entire network

                is? . . .

                You didn't finish that thought.

                a frog in boiling water

                So slowly cooking.

                Have you tried "turning the heat off" ?

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                • NicN
                  Nic
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                  To debunk the frog story a bit, in the experiment where they sat in the slowly boiling water, they were decorticated first. So the only frog that stays in water that boils is one with brain damage 🙂

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                  • wirestyle22W
                    wirestyle22 @DustinB3403
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                    @DustinB3403 said in Frog in the Boiling Water:

                    @wirestyle22 said in Frog in the Boiling Water:

                    @DustinB3403 said in Frog in the Boiling Water:

                    @wirestyle22 said in Frog in the Boiling Water:

                    My entire network

                    is? . . .

                    You didn't finish that thought.

                    a frog in boiling water

                    So slowly cooking.

                    Have you tried "turning the heat off" ?

                    I'm in the process of walking away from the oven and getting a new apartment

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                    • DustinB3403D
                      DustinB3403 @Nic
                      last edited by DustinB3403

                      @Nic said in Frog in the Boiling Water:

                      To debunk the frog story a bit, in the experiment where they sat in the slowly boiling water, they were decorticated first. So the only frog that stays in water that boils is one with brain damage 🙂

                      Which likely occurs from the boiling water.... which in another way means, as you see things beginning to boil, you begin to care less and less and just let it get worse.

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                      • NicN
                        Nic @DustinB3403
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                        @DustinB3403 said in Frog in the Boiling Water:

                        @Nic said in Frog in the Boiling Water:

                        To debunk the frog story a bit, in the experiment where they sat in the slowly boiling water, they were decorticated first. So the only frog that stays in water that boils is one with brain damage 🙂

                        Which likely occurs from the boiling water.... which in another way means, as you see things beginning to boil, you begin to care less and less and just let it get worse.

                        No, the brain was removed first 🙂 https://thinkprogress.org/stop-saying-humans-are-like-slowly-boiling-frogs-f27537e83355

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                        • bbigfordB
                          bbigford @scottalanmiller
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                          @scottalanmiller said in Frog in the Boiling Water:

                          @DustinB3403 said in Frog in the Boiling Water:

                          I would think that you could see that things are getting worse, in one way or another. An email that rubs you the wrong way, a quip, extended hours etc etc.

                          Those things happen during normal times, though, they don't indicate a gradual slip towards a lower state.

                          Exactly.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
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                            So you are saying that humans are dumber than frogs in water?

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                            • travisdh1T
                              travisdh1 @scottalanmiller
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                              @scottalanmiller said in Frog in the Boiling Water:

                              So you are saying that humans are dumber than frogs in water?

                              So you are saying that humans are dumber than frogs in water without a brain.?

                              FTFY

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                              • momurdaM
                                momurda
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                                How can a frog live without a brain? That is something that isnt explained.
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                                How is it not dead if it has no brain? I understand their brains arent as complex as a humans, but can they actually live without them?

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                                • NicN
                                  Nic @momurda
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                                  @momurda I think they left the brainstem so that basic functions still worked and just scooped out the rest of the brain. Kind of like that headless chicken that lived for years:
                                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

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                                  • momurdaM
                                    momurda @Nic
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                                    @Nic WTF? that is crazy

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @momurda
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                                      @momurda said in Frog in the Boiling Water:

                                      @Nic WTF? that is crazy

                                      Didn't grow up on a farm I guess. The entire term "running around like a chicken with its head cut off" comes from the fact that chickens continue to live for quite some time without a head.

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                                      • DustinB3403D
                                        DustinB3403
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                                        The sick part is "When Mike did not die, Olsen instead decided to care for the bird. He fed it a mixture of milk and water via an eyedropper, and gave it small grains of corn."

                                        Olsen is a psycho

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                                          @DustinB3403 said in Frog in the Boiling Water:

                                          The sick part is "When Mike did not die, Olsen instead decided to care for the bird. He fed it a mixture of milk and water via an eyedropper, and gave it small grains of corn."

                                          Olsen is a psycho

                                          Yup

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                                          • momurdaM
                                            momurda @scottalanmiller
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                                            @scottalanmiller I know the term, but 2 years is a bit more than quite some time

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